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Fred talks about making cider.
lexis
great = big, large; aside = next to, beside; cider cheese = mass of crushed apples pressed together in form of cheese; squat = squeeze; pommey = pommace (mass of crushed apples after juice is pressed out)
phonology
definite article + V ® [D] (the apples [Dap=L/z] and the old mill [Do:L/d mIL/]); rhoticity ; H-dropping; hypercorrect [h] (orchard [hO`:tS@`t]); <-Vt#> + V ® [d]; occasionally <f-> ® [v] (for [v@`]) and <s-> ® [z] (sooner [zu:n@`], sing [zIN], soon [zu:n] and myself [mIzEL/f]) and voiceless <th-> ® [d] (twenty-three [twEnIdr/i:]) or ® [D] (think [DINk])
MOUTH [{U ~ @U]; GOAT [o:]; FACE [eI ~ e:]; PALM [Q:]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`:]; NURSE [@`:]; LOT [A]; lettER [@`]
note also it was [tw@z ~ twOz], last [la:st], year [j@`;], there [D@`:], great [g@`:t], give [gI], with [wI] and it is [tIz]
grammar
of + general time phrase (that’d be done of a good old wet day)
third person plural was (if the apples was in the chamber)
zero plural marker on nouns (fourteen pound a ton; twenty-three or four pound; a good thirty, forty gallon)
zero auxiliary (I _ got the barrels up there now)
gender assigned to it (the carving knife aside him (= ham); we’ve runned a good thirty, forty gallon out of him (= cider cheese) before; that’s his first (= cider cheese) running; until there ain’t very much cider left in him (= cider cheese))
third person singular have (everything’ve altered, see)
neuter object pronoun ® hine (keep hine going; give hine a little squat; next morning you press hine down so tight you can; then shear hine round, cut hine round)
third person plural am (plenty of cider to drink while they’m putting on up)
otiose of ® on (plenty of cider to drink while they’m putting on up = while they’re putting up; what you cut off, put on top, then cutting on and put on top = then cut and put on top); otiose of (they wouldn’t think of drinking of it until it’s all put in = they wouldn’t think of drinking it)
past participle runned (we’ve runned a good thirty, forty gallon out of him before)
third person singular be + negative particle ® ain’t (until there ain’t very much left; until there ain’t very much cider left in him; there ain’t hardly any cider drinkers now, you know)
multiple negation (there ain’t hardly any cider drinkers now, you know)
note the construction next morning you press hine down so tight _ you can = as tight as you can
